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The Food and Nutritional Sciences Program at NCA&TSU held a one day six hour introductory food science/food safety hands-on preconference on Monday, July 25, 2011 from 9:00am-3:00 pm as part of the North Carolina Family and Consumer Sciences Education Summer Conference.  For more information, contact Judith C. Simon, Family and Consumer Sciences Education, Department of Public Instruction. 919.414.1949 (cell)

During the summer conference training,  Salam Ibrahim identified one school per district to host the one day training for Food Technology/Food Safety training to raise the awareness of the need for better staff development in these areas based on feedback from teachers. 

Salam will schedule these trainings with these sites/teachers.      Judy Simon will help to market and advertise the trainings over the Foods II Food Technology Moodle and the FACS e-group.  There will be 4 trainings in Fall 2011 and 4 trainings in Spring 2012.

Salam will, from with the feedback from teachers, plan and deliver on deliver a five day workshop (DATE TBD) on Food food science/food technology/food safety which will substitute for the three hour licensure requirement.

Texas Wesleyan University will host hosted a one-day "Teaching Food Safety Workshop" for High School Science Teachers on June 28thAugust 3rd, 2011 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm.  The workshop will be was led by Dr. Angela J. Roberts from the Department of Biology.  More information can be found at http://www.txwes.edu/biology/TeachingFoodSafetyWorkshop.htm or by calling Dr. Roberts at (817) 531-6559.